The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.
—Plato
The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
—Plato
Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.
—Plato
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
—Plato
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
—Stephen Hawking
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
—Plato
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
—Plato
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
—Plato
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
—Socrates
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity.
Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together.
With these means, man can attain perfection.
—Plato
Apply yourself both now and in the next life.
Without effort, you cannot be prosperous.
Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
—Plato
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
—Plato
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
—Plato
Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
—Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
—Socrates
Thou should eat to live; not live to eat.
—Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
—Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
—Socrates
The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it…..Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
—Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
—Socrates
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
—Socrates
Science is organized knowledge.
Wisdom is organized life.
—Immanuel Kant
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
—Immanuel Kant
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
—René Descartes
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
—René Descartes
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
—Immanuel Kant
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
—Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
—Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
—Aristotle